A female former OSS agent is sent to Tangiers, Morocco, to infiltrate and destroy an international smuggling ring.A female former OSS agent is sent to Tangiers, Morocco, to infiltrate and destroy an international smuggling ring.A female former OSS agent is sent to Tangiers, Morocco, to infiltrate and destroy an international smuggling ring.
James O'Hara
- Danny Boy
- (as Jim Lilburn)
Gérard Tichy
- Cronkhite
- (as Gerard Tichy)
Carmen Carrasco
- Flamenco Dancer in Frisco's Bar
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writer
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- TriviaAlso known as 'Fire Over Africa'.
- Quotes
Van Logan: Hi
Joanna Dana: Alright talk and talk fast and I better like your story
Van Logan: Like any other woman your late
Joanna Dana: Late, Late for what?
Van Logan: The dinner I told you about, what all this?
Joanna Dana: Oh, I forgot to tell ya, I'm just a natural true born slob
Van Logan: Countess you can't discourage me that easily
- ConnectionsReferences Casbah (1948)
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The free international city of Tangiers
Tangiers is yet another one of those exotic locales that connote mystery, romance, and adventure and at the point in time this film was made was under an international administration. Two years later it reverted to Spanish control as part of Spanish Morocco and now it is part of Morocco itself. So the film was dated shortly after it's release.
With some background footage of Tangiers, Malaga was shot on location with interiors done in London. Maureen O'Hara was top billed in this one in a role that Jane Russell would have normally been cast in. Like Russell, O'Hara spends most of her time busting out of the tight fitting clothing that she has to wear. I'm sure the movie goers of 1954 didn't care about the plot.
Maureen is an American agent sent to Tangiers to find out who's running a smuggling operation and take it down. Since other agents have been killed no one other than who would now be called her controller knows who she is.
Maureen's troubles begin when the controller is killed by the bad guys in the first reel. So now she's working blind not knowing who to trust.
Oh well, the location photography in Malaga looks real nice and Maureen in those tight dresses in Technicolor is a treat. Beyond that I can't say too much. Macdonald Carey looks bored, he probably came for the free trip to the Spanish Mediterranean coast. Binnie Barnes has a nice turn as a wisecracking saloonkeeper.
But there's nothing special here.
With some background footage of Tangiers, Malaga was shot on location with interiors done in London. Maureen O'Hara was top billed in this one in a role that Jane Russell would have normally been cast in. Like Russell, O'Hara spends most of her time busting out of the tight fitting clothing that she has to wear. I'm sure the movie goers of 1954 didn't care about the plot.
Maureen is an American agent sent to Tangiers to find out who's running a smuggling operation and take it down. Since other agents have been killed no one other than who would now be called her controller knows who she is.
Maureen's troubles begin when the controller is killed by the bad guys in the first reel. So now she's working blind not knowing who to trust.
Oh well, the location photography in Malaga looks real nice and Maureen in those tight dresses in Technicolor is a treat. Beyond that I can't say too much. Macdonald Carey looks bored, he probably came for the free trip to the Spanish Mediterranean coast. Binnie Barnes has a nice turn as a wisecracking saloonkeeper.
But there's nothing special here.
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- bkoganbing
- Apr 19, 2005
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- Runtime1 hour 24 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.66 : 1
- 1.85 : 1
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